Archive for the ‘Idioms’ Category

The Teacher: English Idioms on Video

Lundi, janvier 12th, 2009

The BBC TeacherThe Teacher is the BBC award-winning video series designed to make learning English idioms fun. Each unit has a video you can watch and download to your computer. There’s also an opportunity for you to practise using the idioms by sending in your ‘homework’.

Try it HERE!

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The Phrase Finder

Samedi, juillet 14th, 2007

Find the meaning and origins of Phrases, Sayings and Idioms

Browse the alphabetical list of 1,200 phrases and sayings:

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U,V] [W] [X,Y,Z]

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‘A Phrase A Week’: common idioms

Samedi, juillet 14th, 2007

‘A Phrase A Week’ is a free service - an e-mail explanation of the origin of a commonly-used English phrase each week.

The origins of phrases are continuously researched and published in an idioms and phrases section.

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